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Linear: AIRCORE-1120

Why

Customers will ask NeMo Platform to help them build an agent. This gives them one supported path using LangChain Deep Agents through Fabric. This is an update to the existing build agent skill which relied on NAT. The goal here is to guide the user through building an agent, if they don't have one already. It's not intended to add official agent building support to NeMo Platform. It's more like a reference example.

The skill starts off by building a plain language Ethos, waits for approval, builds the smallest supported agent shape, tests it and then registers it with NeMo Platform. It explains NeMo terms as it goes so customers do not need prior knowledge of Fabric, MCP or Ethos.

What changed

• Added a Fabric based build agent workflow with no NAT fallback.
• Added clear approval points before implementation, installation and remote changes.
• Added checks that reuse an installed Agents plugin and Deep Agents harness.
• Added safe behavior when the plugin is missing, installation is declined or the installation is incomplete.
• Added happy path and failure path evaluations.
• Added packaging, testing and signoff guidance.

What I tested

• Focused skill content tests: 14 passed.
• The current NeMo Platform source wheel packaged successfully through the documented Fabric path.
• The packaged agent called build.nvidia.com successfully.
• The model called the calculator MCP tool with 12 and 8.
• The tool returned 96 and the agent returned the same answer.
• The ATOF trace recorded the model call, tool call and final response.

The behavioral evaluation cases remain in source for a future formal skill evaluation. They are not included in the customer runtime package.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a beta workflow for building LangChain Deep Agents through Fabric.
  • Added artifact selection, MCP-based custom tools, packaging, deployment verification, telemetry checks, and evaluator execution.
  • Added approval, credential, compatibility, and capability checks with evidence-based stop conditions.
  • Added deferred registration after pre-registration gates pass, with workspace and environment verification.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance for Fabric configuration, packaging, deployment, testing, and sign-off.

• Changes

  • Removed legacy NAT, synthetic-data, benchmark, guardrail, and previous agent-template workflows.

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Walkthrough

The PR replaces the legacy NAT workflow with a beta Fabric Deep Agents workflow. It adds Ethos approval gates, MCP tooling, packaging and deployment rules, acceptance testing, evaluation scenarios, and updated content tests.

Changes

Fabric Deep Agents workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow contract and capability gates packages/nemo_platform_ext/src/nemo_platform_ext/skills/nemo-build-agent/SKILL.md, packages/nemo_platform_ext/src/nemo_platform_ext/skills/nemo-build-agent/references/fabric-deep-agents.md	The skill requires Ethos approval, validates the NeMo Agents plugin and adapter, uses agent.yaml, supports MCP tools, and rejects unsupported local harness implementations.
Agent construction and acceptance validation packages/nemo_platform_ext/src/nemo_platform_ext/skills/nemo-build-agent/SKILL.md, packages/nemo_platform_ext/src/nemo_platform_ext/skills/nemo-build-agent/references/testing-and-signoff.md	The workflow defines constrained project generation, secret redaction, acceptance contracts, local and live testing gates, telemetry checks, and evidence-based status labels.
Packaging and resource lifecycle packages/nemo_platform_ext/src/nemo_platform_ext/skills/nemo-build-agent/references/packaging.md, packages/nemo_platform_ext/src/nemo_platform_ext/skills/nemo-build-agent/SKILL.md	The guidance adds project layout checks, build-context inspection, validated packaging, source-checkout wheel handling, approval-gated registration, workspace-qualified deployment, Docker requirements, and post-deployment verification.
Evaluation assets and package validation packages/nemo_platform_ext/src/nemo_platform_ext/skills/nemo-build-agent/evals/evals.json, packages/nemo_platform_ext/src/nemo_platform_ext/skills/nemo-build-agent/tests.json, packages/nemo_platform_ext/tests/cli/commands/skills/test_skill_content.py	Evaluation and routing fixtures cover approval, plugin availability, adapter failures, credentials, collisions, runtime support, and unsupported workflows. Content tests verify the new references, plugin failure paths, deferred registration, and workspace usage.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Builder
  participant Ethos
  participant NeMoAgentsPlugin
  participant Fabric
  participant Evaluator
  Builder->>Ethos: Confirm approved agent criteria
  Builder->>NeMoAgentsPlugin: Validate adapter and harness
  Builder->>Fabric: Author agent.yaml and run pre-registration gates
  Fabric-->>Builder: Create and deploy in confirmed workspace
  Builder->>Evaluator: Run approved Ethos cases
  Evaluator-->>Builder: Return evaluation evidence and status

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d28cd

This change introduces the Fabric Deep Agents build workflow with gated packaging and deployment guidance. The no-environment deployment path is addressed, but several documentation usability gaps and one missing regression assertion for workspace-qualified environments remain; these are low-risk follow-ups rather than blockers.

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- Line 3: Add a short “## Prerequisites” section immediately after the
introduction in the Fabric Deep Agents reference, listing the required installed
Fabric Deep Agents adapter descriptor and NeMo Agents config model before the
contract and Version boundary sections.

In
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- Around line 246-247: Add a final “Next Steps” section to
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- Line 79: Add a `Next Steps` section at the end of
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3), listing the approved Ethos, generated project, installed plugin and harness,
and live-test requirements; add a prerequisites section at the top of
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Present the deployment variants in a tab set.

The selected-environment and no-environment commands are parallel alternatives. Put each command in its own tab instead of presenting both as sequential sections.

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